Identity and Symbolic Interaction

Structural Symbolic Interaction and Identity: The Indiana School and Beyond (Richard T. Serpe).- The link between identity importance and Identity Salience: Context Matters (Peggy A. Thoits).- The Identity Verification Process: Cognitive and Behavioral Responses (Jan E. Stets).- The Role of the Other: How Interaction Partners Influence Identity Maintenance (Lynn Smith-Lovin).-  Identity Flexibility and Uncertainty (Peter J. Burke).- Competing Identity Standards and Managing Identity Verification (Jessie K Finch).- The Social Bases of Racial Identity among White and Black Americans (Matthew O. Hunt).- Mathematics Identity, Self-Efficacy, and Interest and their Relationships to Mathematics Achievement: A Longitudinal Analysis (George W. Bohrnstedt).- Following in the Steps of a Giant: How Incorporating Social Networks into Structural Symbolic Interactionism Enriches both Frameworks (Bernice Pescosolido).- Rational Choice, Identity and Decision-Making (Ross Matsueda).- A View from the Bridge: Sociological and Psychological Aspects of Identity Multiplicity (Day Deaux).- Role Discrepancies and Psychological Distress: A Partial Test of Incorporating Identity Theory and Self-Definitions into the Stress Process Model (Richard E. Adams).- Personality Traits and the Perceptual Control of Identities (Will Kalkhoff).- Fortcoming (Pamela Brayboy Jackson).- Structural Symbolic Interaction and Identity Theory: Current Achievements and Challenges for the Future (Richard T. Serpe).



 

Richard Serpe is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University in 1985. He has been the coeditor of Social Psychology Quarterly (with Jan E. Stets) and Sociological Perspectives (with Don Barrett). Professor Serpe is a sociological social psychologist who has been working in the area of identity theory for the past forty years. His recent research is designed to further contextualize identity processes in terms of differential placement within the social structure. This research focuses on specifying proximal social structure, defining counter- normative identities and exploring the relationships between identity processes and self-relevant outcome e.g., self-esteem, efficacy, anxiety, depression, and emotions. He is the coeditor of Identities in Everyday Life (with Jan E. Stets); New Directions in Identity Theory and Research (with Jan E. Stets), and Advances in Identity Theory and Research (with Peter J. Burke, Timothy J. Owens, and Peggy A. Thoits).

Robin Stryker is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Purdue University, and Professor Emerita, University of Arizona, where in addition to her appointment in Sociology, she was affiliated with the Rogers College of Law and School of Government and Public Policy. She is the recipient of many scholarly awards, research grants and fellowships, including a Jean Monnet Fellowship (2001) and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2008). In 2016-2017, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. She is a past president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio- Economics, and a past Chair of the American Sociological Association's sections on Theory, Political Sociology, and the Sociology of Law. She is a past member of the National Research Council Roundtable on the Communication and Use of the Social and Behavioral Sciences,